October 14, 2025-- Higher levels of tree canopy cover may help prevent injurious pedestrian falls, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

For some 60 years, the phrase “concrete jungle” has been used to describe American cities — evoking images of hot, hardscrabble urban spaces. In recent years, however, increasing attention has been ...

Urban trees can lower local air temperatures by 8-12 degrees Celsius in Central European cities, and up to 12 degrees Celsius at pedestrian level through radiation blockage and transpiration. This isn ...

The D.C. area’s council of governments wants to get at least half of the region covered in trees. After years of shrinking tree cover, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) adopted ...

Trees cover less than a quarter of most Dayton neighborhoods, and the city has lost thousands of street trees over the last several decades. But the city is going to develop a plan to try to maintain ...

Tree canopies shading Massachusetts cities and towns could grow dramatically, particularly in environmental justice communities where there’s currently scant coverage, under a legislative proposal to ...

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Arkansas has a greater percentage of urban tree canopy than any other state west of the Mississippi River. That's according to TreeCanopy.us, a project of the Arbor Day Foundation, the U.S. Forest ...